Cretins and @rseholes.

proactive

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No, not yet another thread about politics, amazingly.

Why is it that when I drive through these traffic lights, in the left hand lane, to go straight on towards the next set of lights I regularly get cut up by cretins moving in from the right hand lane.

Not only that but apart from being cretins a fair proportion of them are complete @rsehole who when I pap my horn in warning that they are about to drive into me, get aggressive WITH ME fro daring to be in the right lane.

Sooner rather than later there is going to be a 7 cell Maglite/cranium interface here because I've just about had enough.

And breathe...
 
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shoes

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The road is full of them.

It's tempting to buy an old knacker of a car and see how many people you can get away with hitting in one day before the insurance deems it to be your fault. I reckon I could take out a good dozen motorists by just not moving out of the way for people who feel it's their god given right to change lanes right this second.
 

shoes

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I suspected it would be the ones a little further round:

https://goo.gl/maps/9vEad

I've come close to a few scrapes here, including a couple of police cars who continued into the middle lane from the left, as I was trying to move into that line, as per the road markings, from the right.
 

Rikki

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I knew exactly where you meant without looking as well. I just always expect the car to my right is going to move across and make sure they don't hit me if they do.
 

captainpish

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The road is full of them.

It's tempting to buy an old knacker of a car and see how many people you can get away with hitting in one day before the insurance deems it to be your fault. I reckon I could take out a good dozen motorists by just not moving out of the way for people who feel it's their god given right to change lanes right this second.
Ive had that thought many a time. Even got that pissed off once i almost did it with my works van but at the last minute i bottled it!
 

John Marwood

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I am going to have to quote Banksy at you I am afraid.. ( nothing personal of course )

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Maryland

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Oh yes, those lights and that lane. I got cut up like that one otherwise pleasant Sunday afternoon by an idiot in an elderly 4wd who not only swerved deliberately and aggressively in front of me and then away to the right again, but whose equally idiotic female passenger then proceeded to yell aggressively at me out of her window that I was an idiot who was in the wrong sodding lane. When I changed my course to follow them, got out of my car when they had to stop at the island lights and suggested that instead of the driver trying to cause an accident and the woman yelling abuse at me, they should drive round the junction again and observe the road signs and lane markings, wifey suddenly changed her tune and informed me in wounded tones that I was 'just a nasty person'. Driver chappy then invited me, rather shamefacedly, to 'piss off'. I suspect alcohol had been taken.
 

darben

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The road is marked before the lights with left lane is for the a449 and the right lane for the a34.
Most people don't but if your not going on to the the a449 you should be in the right hand lane and filter into the lane you need to be in after the lights.
If you end up having an accident by feeding into the left lane of the a34 from the lane designated for the a449 you will be the one at fault.
 

kyoto49

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No, not yet another thread about politics, amazingly.

Why is it that when I drive through these traffic lights, in the left hand lane, to go straight on towards the next set of lights I regularly get cut up by cretins moving in from the right hand lane.

Not only that but apart from being cretins a fair proportion of them are complete @rsehole who when I pap my horn in warning that they are about to drive into me, get aggressive WITH ME fro daring to be in the right lane.

Sooner rather than later there is going to be a 7 cell Maglite/cranium interface here because I've just about had enough.

And breathe...

It clearly says on the lane marking before the lights that the left hand lane is for the A449 does it not? If so then if you are intending to go straight on to the A34 then YOU are the one in the worng lane if you are in the left hand lane? Or am I missing something??
 

Gramaisc

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Mmm, this is all too difficult and people may be talking about left and right lanes at different parts of the roundabout and its environs.

The road markings are fairly clear, as long as you know where the A518 is...
 

Flopsy Bunny

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Saw some unbelievable driving by an elderly gentleman with a lady passenger in a small light blue car at this junction this afternoon.!!
I was coming down the Lichfield road and had stopped at the lights by Wolverhampton road doctors, in the right hand lane to go round passed the new multi storey /shops they are building. When the lights changed, the above mentioned car pulled off from in front of me and did a sharp right hand turn and went the wrong way down the road at the side of the dry cleaners which takes you to A449 or A518 from Asda direction. Luckily no cars were waiting at the lights to go up A449 or A518!!!
I carried on through lights and got round to old Tesco multi storey entrance and the gentleman was coming towards me, still on wrong side of road, now indicating right again. After me and others drivers flashed and waved at him, I noticed in my rear view mirror that he did a u turn using old Tesco entrance and then made his way behind a few of us towards Asda.This is where I lost sight of him!!!!!!
Very dangerous and surely he must know that you go clockwise round a roundabout! Luckily the roads were quite quiet, or a head on collision could have been on the cards.
Didn't know what to do really to stop him, without causing further chaos! He seemed in a world of his own and oblivious to the risk he was taking!
 

Gramaisc

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Saw some unbelievable driving by an elderly gentleman with a lady passenger in a small light blue car at this junction this afternoon.!!
I was coming down the Lichfield road and had stopped at the lights by Wolverhampton road doctors, in the right hand lane to go round passed the new multi storey /shops they are building. When the lights changed, the above mentioned car pulled off from in front of me and did a sharp right hand turn and went the wrong way down the road at the side of the dry cleaners which takes you to A449 or A518 from Asda direction. Luckily no cars were waiting at the lights to go up A449 or A518!!!
I carried on through lights and got round to old Tesco multi storey entrance and the gentleman was coming towards me, still on wrong side of road, now indicating right again. After me and others drivers flashed and waved at him, I noticed in my rear view mirror that he did a u turn using old Tesco entrance and then made his way behind a few of us towards Asda.This is where I lost sight of him!!!!!!
Very dangerous and surely he must know that you go clockwise round a roundabout! Luckily the roads were quite quiet, or a head on collision could have been on the cards.
Didn't know what to do really to stop him, without causing further chaos! He seemed in a world of his own and oblivious to the risk he was taking!
This used to happen a lot - people from out of town see the sign for a roundabout and imagine that the triangular island is it - they will rarely see a roundabout elsewhere that you can't see the far side of..
 

Withnail

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It would possibly ease some confusion if the right hand lane had a curving-to-the-right arrow, rather than a straight one.

Probably not.
 

Gramaisc

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It would possibly ease some confusion if the right hand lane had a curving-to-the-right arrow, rather than a straight one.

Probably not.
In the very early days, the sign, as you came at it on Lichfield Road, just showed a roundabout - it now shows the triangular island, as well, if you have time to notice it, as a result of the mis-navigations that went on - if there's no traffic weighting at the lights, then an 'innocent' outsider might believe that that was the roundabout.
 
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